Their world was perfect in every way; balance had been achieved, concern over famine, poverty, war were gone... all was pleasant but the hunger for conflict, the hunger to conquer, which had been quelled by fair competition in state sanctioned games, was beginning to show its teeth...

What once was called satan awaits to rise...

Wrapped in a quilt of complacency, he rises

Too long repressed

Flex

Desire

The fruit of the universe is mans to harvest at will...

Reach out into the darkness and take what doesn't resist and the rest you fight for... because mankind is entitled...

We have sent explorers through the wormhole tuned to different coordinates... Six of the seven teams returned. Peels team is assumed missing except that the wormhole isn't locking into the original coordinates, as if it isn't there or something or someone is jamming the ping

Twenty minutes is all it will take, more than enough time to make love...You were there, on the other sideI wasTell me about itAbout what, i found nothingThen what does Commander Korn expect to find?Whatever Peel found, which was death in my opinionThen why did he bring you along?Because I've been there, I've seen it, the other side, the nothingnessPeel is the only one to gave made it throughAnd never return... For all we know the hole collapsed and he and his family are trapped, foreverAnd the others, the other eight families, they all returned with nothingYou fund nothing and you get to return, make a discovery and never come back.But why?Don't ask me I'm a bit negative about it all.I think they found something and if we look again, harder we'll find somethingWe just might... Korn plans on worming to the Peel coordinates but from our destination coordinatesYou mean...A second jump, build another worm

The iconic Doomsday Clock, considered a metaphor for the dangers faced by the world, was pushed ahead by two minutes over concerns about worsening climate change and the world's failure to reduce nuclear weapons, a trans-Atlantic group of prominent scientists announced.
Every year, the Science and Security Board of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists analyzes international threats, particularly nuclear arsenals and climate change, and decides where the minute hand on the Doomsday Clock should rest. The closer it is to midnight, the closer the world is to doom.
The last time the clock moved was in 2012 when the Board set the minute hand at 11:55 p.m. over concerns about the state of nuclear arsenals around the world. It also was concerned about the Fukushima nuclear meltdown and the outbreak of H5N1 flu. It hasn't moved this much since 2007, when the Board warned that "the world stands on the brink of a second nuclear age." It also cited climate change which it called "a dire challenge to humanity."
Those two issues again took center stage as the Board announced it would bump the clock two minutes ahead, to 11:57 p.m.
"Today, unchecked climate change and a nuclear arms race resulting from modernization of huge arsenals pose extraordinary and undeniable threats to the continued existence of humanity," Kennette Benedict, executive director of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, told reporters. "And world leaders have failed to act with the speed or on the scale required to protect citizens from potential catastrophe. These failures of leadership endanger every person on Earth."
The Board was especially critical of world leaders for failing to take the actions necessary to keep temperatures from rising more than 2 degrees C (3.6 degrees F) over what they were in preindustrial times, which most scientists contend would avert the worst impacts of climate change, such as widespread droughts, heat waves and flooding.
World leaders are set to meet later this year in Paris to ink a deal to combat climate change beginning in 2020. But many critics argue it comes too late and won't have the teeth necessary to facilitate a shift away from fossil fuels that are blamed for much of the increase in greenhouse gas emissions.
"Steps seen as bold in light of today's extremely daunting political opposition to climate action do not even match the expectations of five years ago, to say nothing of the scientific necessity," said Sivan Kartha, a member of the Board and a senior scientist at the Stockholm Environment Institute.
"The results are unsurprising. Global greenhouse gas emission rates are now 50 percent higher than they were in 1990," he said. "Emission rates have risen since 2000 by more than in the previous three decades combined. Investments have continued to pour into fossil fuel infrastructure at a rate that exceeds $1 trillion per year, with additional hundreds of billions of dollars in continued fossil fuel subsidies. We can and must turn this around."
The Board also said the United States and Russia weren't doing enough to reduce their nuclear arsenals, while warning that other countries not part of the Treaty on the Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons such as India, Pakistan, Israel, are expanding or modernizing theirs.
"Since the end of the Cold War, there has been cautious optimism about the ability of nuclear weapon states to keep the nuclear arms race in check and to walk back slowly from the precipice of nuclear destruction," said Sharon Squassoni, a Board member and director and senior fellow at the Proliferation Prevention Program, Center for Strategic and International Studies. "That optimism has essentially evaporated in the face of two trends: sweeping nuclear weapons modernization programs and a disarmament machinery that has ground to a halt."
The Board called on the world cap to greenhouse gas emissions, dramatically reduce proposed spending on nuclear weapons modernization programs, re-energize the disarmament process and deal with nuclear waste.
"We are not saying its too late to take action but the window for action is closing rapidly," Benedict said. "The world needs to be awakened from its lethargy and start making changes. We move the clock hand today to inspire action and move that process along."
The Doomsday Clock is the invention of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, a publication started by some of the researchers who worked on the atomic bomb. The wife of one of these researchers, Martyl Langsdorf, was a painter. In 1947, she illustrated the first Bulletin cover to feature the Doomsday Clock set at that point at 11:53 p.m.
Langsdorf died in March 2013, but her creation keeps on ticking.
The closest the Doomsday Clock has ever come to midnight was in 1953, when the minute hand ticked to 11:58 p.m. after the first test of the hydrogen bomb. It was at its most optimistic in 1991, when the Bulletin board set the time at 17 minutes to midnight as the Cold War ended.
Since 1991, however, the clock has been ticking gradually toward doom, as it became clear that total nuclear disarmament would not be happening.

Wednesday, January 21, 2015

Doin' Time in Times Square

This is an excellent short documentary showing good old Time Square before it was cleaned up. The video was created by Charlie Ahearn, shot from his 43rd Street apartment window from 1981 to 1983. This video may be best known for the scene starting around 9:45; a guy gets punched "right on the button!" and knocked out cold then has his wallet stolen. That's just one of a few fights in this video. It also has some

Memories...

A woman's New Year's Eve was ruined when she narrowly missed the ferry to Vancouver and couldn't convince the station staff to let her board after the cutoff time. With her boat about to depart without, she threw a tremendous, last-ditch temper tantrum that has rocked Canada's national sense of politeness and propriety to its core.
"It's New Year's Eve for heaven sakes!" she shouts, the extreme stress of the situation forcing her to use, inappropriate uncanadian language. "You have no idea! You don't understand people's feelings and what this meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeans ....!"
It's hard to tell because it all becomes one long screech at some point, but I'm pretty sure she even said "fuck." Whoa.
Scandalized passengers whipped out their phones to capture the rare meltdown. Canadians are very sorry that 800,000 people had to see the video on the Spotted in Victoria Facebook group.
"I refuse to watch this. I don't need to see someone having a hard time," said one CBC commenter.
"The courts haven't really figured out what happens when that gets loaded up on to YouTube or another website," defamation lawyer Daniel Reid told the CBC, underscoring Canada's unpreparedness for the national emergency of someone being rude and someone else rudely capturing the scene with their phone.
To be fair to the Canadian legal system, though, there's no way they could have seen this national tragedy coming.
"Obviously, it's something that people found funny or found interesting so they shared it with a lot of their friends and it's just the power of social media now. We never thought something like this could be possible," said Austin Singhera of Spotted in Victoria.
This is not the Canada we once knew, eh? Not at all.
[h/t Reddit]

For this music video, the musician, who just goes by Dessa, literally took a dive.
The singer, songwriter and spoken-word artist appears in this video, on location, and under water.
It's for this song she wrote two years ago called "Sound the Bells" — telling a mariner's tale of a shipwreck foretold — a crew knowing that it would perish.
Late one night, after recording the song, a filmmaker Dessa knows sent her a surreal picture: life-sized statues of people, submerged below water.
"He just sent me an image of one of these statues that had been set on the bottom of the ocean in Mexico," she says. "And he must have been baiting me really well because one of my first questions was, 'Where is it and can you get there?'"
The sculptures are located off Isla Mujeres, on the Yucatan Peninsula. And yes, you can get there.
The sculptures by English sculpture Jason deCaires Taylor and were the centerpiece of a project to rehab the underwater environment after hurricanes destroyed coral reefs there.
"It's really clever, as a conservationist, he stuck on this brilliant idea that instead of prohibiting people swimming near the reefs and bringing with them all the sunscreen and traffic that can really damage the reefs, he said, 'well, I'll just put something over there for the tourists to see.'"

Some of Jason deCaires Taylor's underwater sculptures featured in "Sound The Bells".

Credit:
Courtesy of Dessa

Dessa confesses that even if you gave her 100 years to solve a problem like coral reefs she would have never come up with such a clever, graceful win-win of a conservation solution.
"So I was one of many people who wanted to see the work that he'd done in this kind of underwater museum, which will eventually become transformed as coral grows over it, into a reef of its own," she says.
After watching Dessa's video, what I wanted to know was what it like to be swimming among all those underwater sculptures?
"I'm not a very strong swimmer, but I knew I wanted to swim convincingly for this video. So I spent a lot of time at the YWCA in Minneapolis trying to stay at the bottom of the pool and I was totally freaking out the teenage lifeguard — 'What is this girl doing in Lane Four?'" she says, laughing.
If you've read this far and haven't watched the video, you've got to see how Dessa's YWCA training led to these gorgeous scenes from the reefs of Isla Mujeres.

The Octave
of Energyby Robert
Anton Wilson

The
Law of Octaves was first suggested by Pythagoras in
ancient Greece. Having observed that the eight notes of the
conventional Occidental musical scale were governed by definite
mathematical relationships, Pythagoras proceeded to create a
whole cosmology based on 8s. In this octagonal model Pythagoras
made numerous mistakes, because he was generalizing from
insufficient data. However, his work was the first attempt in
history to unify science, mathematics, art and mysticism into one
comprehensible system and as such is still influential. Leary,
Crowley and Buckminster Fuller have all described themselves as
modern Pythagoreans.

In China, roughly contemporary with Pythagoras, the Taoists built
up a cosmology based on the interplay of yang (positive) and yin
(negative), which produced the eight trigrams of the I
Ching, out of which are
generated the 64 hexagrams.

In India, Buddha announced, after his illumination under the
Bodhi tree, the Noble Eightfold Path. Patanjali subsequently
reduced the
science of yoga to
eight "limbs" or, as we might say, eight "steps."

The game of chess appeared, somewhere in the East, with a grid
based on 8x8 (64) squares.

Kepler discovered
the laws of planetary motion serendipitously, while trying to
make the planets fit into the Pythagorean octave.

In the 1860s, English chemist John Newland showed
that all the chemical elements fall into eight families.
Since Pythagorean mysticism was unfashionable at that time,
Newland was literally laughed at and rejected by the Royal
Chemical Society. In the 1870s, with much more detail than
Newland, the Russian
chemist Mendeleyev proved
once and for all that the elements do, indeed, fall into eight
families. His Periodic Table of the Elements, an octave of
hauntingly Pythagorean harmony, hangs in every high-school
chemistry class today. (The Royal Society later apologized to
Newland and gave him a Gold Medal.)

Nikolai
Tesla invented the
alternating current generator which unleashed the modern
technological revolution after a series of visions in which,
among other things, Tesla "saw" that everything in the
universe obeys a law of Octaves.

Modern geneticists have found that the DNA-RNA
"dialogue"—the
molecular information system governing life and evolution—is
transmitted by 64 (8x8) codons.

R.
Buckminster Fuller, in
his Synergetic-Energetic Geometry, which he claims is the
"co-ordinate system of the Universe," reduces all
phenomena to geometric-energetic constructs based on the
tetrahedron (4-sided), the octet truss (8-sided) and the coupler
(8-faceted with 24 phases). Fuller argues specifically that the
8-face, 24-phase coupler underlies the 8-fold division of the
chemical elements on the Mendeleyev Periodic Table.

In 1973, unaware of Fuller's coupler—which I called to his
attention later—Dr.
Leary began to divide his 8 circuits into
a 24-stage Periodic Table of Evolution (see diagram). Leary also
began attempting to correlate this with the Periodic Table of
Elements in chemistry.

The
eight families of elements are:

Alkalis

Alkalines

Borons

Carbons

Nitrogens

Oxygens

Halogens

Noble
Gases

The
first four families, Leary argues, are terrestrial; that is, they
are heavy and tend to fall to Earth. The second four familes are
extraterrestrial; that is, they tend to float off into space.
Similarly, he says, the first four circuits of the nervous system
are terrestrial; their function is to control survival and
reproduction at the bottom of the 4,000-mile gravity well in
which we presently live. The second four circuits, then, are
extraterrestrial; they will come into full play only when we live
normally in zero-gravity—in free space.

THE
PERIODIC TABLE OF EVOLUTION

CIRCUIT

DENDRITICFUNCTION(Input)

CELL
BODYFUNCTION(Integrative)

AXONICFUNCTION(Output)

Neuroatomic

CosmicConsciousness

CosmicEngineering

Cosmic Fusion

Neurogenetic

DNA Awareness

DNA Engineering

DNA Fusion

Neuroelectric

ESPPrecognition

The Neurologician(the
Shaman)

"The ConsciousCircle of
Humanity

Neurosomatic

Hedonic Passivity

Hedonic Engineering(Yoga)

Hedonic Synergy(Tantra)

Domestic(SocioSexual)

The Adolescent(Barbarian
Bands)

The Parent(Patriarchal
Civilization)

Centralized
Socialism(Hive-Unity)

Laryngeal-Manual(Symbolic)

The Learning Child(Paleolithic)

The Skillful Child(Neolithic)

The Creative Child(Bronze
Age)

Emotional-Territorial

The Toddler(trickster
mammal)

The Fighting Child(predator
mammal)

The Political
Child(pack-bonding)

Bio-Survival

The Newborn(unicellular
consciousness)

The Demanding Infant(marine
consciousness)

Mother-Child bonding(amphibian
consciousness)

Read
from the bottom up. Every infant begins at "The
Newborn"; every adult arrives at least at
"Centralized Socialism" (although the Control
Center or major input may be back at "The Toddler"
or "The Fighting Child" or in any slot).
So-called geniuses, mystics or weird people with wild
(psionic) talents are post-larval and may reach any slot
from "Centralized Socialism" to "Cosmic
Fusion."

If the higher circuits have been appearing (partially and
in rare mutants) for a few thousand years this is because
the DNA blueprint
is gradually modifying us for future evolution. If higher
circuit functions are increasing at an accelerating rate,
as many parapsychologists think, it is because we are now
mutating rapidly toward extraterrestrial migration.

Mathematically, the first four circuits are
Euclidean-Newtonian, orienting us to the 3-dimensional
space and 1-dimensional time of planetary life. The
second four circuits are Fullerian-Einsteinian, orienting
us to interstellar zero-gravity.

It is possible to see the
development of an individual (if s/he evolves all the way
to the 8th circuit) and the development of life itself as
the working out of this Octave of Evolution. Thus:

Individual

Life

Circuit I

infant bio-survivalpassivity

uni-cellular life

Circuit II

"toddler"
emotionalpolitics (ego)

vertebrate life,territoriality,
hierarchy

Circuit III

student Mind

hominid languages
andtool-making

Circuit IV

post-pubescentdomesticity

urbanized civilization

Circuit V

neurosomatic rapture

free-fall (extraterrestrial
migration)

Circuit VI

neuroelectricmetaprogramming

Intelligence squared

Circuit VII

neurogenetic consciousness

immortality

Circuit VIII

satori

Cosmic Union

But this is strikingly similar
to the teachings of Gurdjieff (which
may be, according to many, the secret inner teachings of
Sufism). The Gurdjieff vibration numbers and the levels
of consciousness, as named by Gurdjieff, fit the table as
follows:

384

Movement center

Circuit I

Invertebrate reality

192

False emotional center

Circuit II

Mammalian reality

96

False intellectual center

Circuit III

Paleolithic reality

48

False personality

Circuit IV

Civilized reality

24

Magnetic Center

Circuit V

Hedonic reality

12

True Emotional center

Circuit VI

Psionic reality

6

True Intellectual center

Circuit VII

Immortal reality

3

The Essence

Circuit VIII

Cosmic reality

Leary
began to divide the 8 circuits into 24 phases when he became
convinced each circuit has an input phase, a decision-making
phase, and an output phase. (On the synaptic level, this
appears as dendrites, receiving signals; cell-bodies, making
decisions; and axions, transmitting signals.) This 24-stage
chart can be correlated with the hebrew alphabet, thereby
casting new light on the Cabala; with the Tarot cards (a Sufi
invention, it is claimed); and with the Zodiac (if we allow
12 extraterrestrial types to complete the 12 terrestrial
types of traditional astrology). These correlations are not
indicated on the diagram; a full explaination will be found
in two later books.

Working independently of Leary and myself, Prof. Peter
Flessel of the University of San Francisco has begun
developing correlations between the 8x8 codons of the genetic
code and the 8x8 hexagrams of the I Ching, which he will be
publishing soon. It is to be hoped that in further work on
the Leary Periodic Table, Flessel's correlations and Fuller's
24-phase geometric coupler, science will eventually find a
"Rosetta Stone" by which the traditional symbols of
occultism can be decoded in modern, operational, scientific
categories.

It will be seen by the thoughtful reader that this emerging
synthesis evades entirely the usual dichotomy of "spiritual"
versus "material," being purely
geometric-energetic. It is thus in the same philosophical
category as the unitary systems of the East (Zen, Taoism,
Vedanta, etc.) and outside the dualisms of Greek logic and
Christian theology. Any attempt to describe this octave as
"mystical" or as "materialistic" misses
the real point of Leary's work.

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About Me

All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain...and like all living things, waste away...

I am a shooter and so much more...I see the shot in the camera extending the intended vision and how we'll use it in the final cut, who will see it, why and how, so much goes into the whole and I see it.... I am more than the equipment and I am more than the shooter that guy with the camera on his shoulder, the camera in hand...

On the most basic level I put a camera to my eye, be it digital or film, press the shutter and record...

But I do so much more...just cause it's so much fun to learn all there is...method of record/capture, edit/composite to convey the message, the story there it's always to tell...

Sometimes I think, have I learned all I need... A moment, later I think not...and find more to learn, to apply what I have already learned to new work...

Living & working in the San Francisco Bay area where I'm working and exploring life as a Project Manager long versed in Producing, Shooting, Editing for Broadcast and Webcast and many forms of development and presentation...

Freelancing as well for ECG as a web-cast engineer / lighting-cameraperson and VTS applying my extensive knowledge of camera operation and production...

Recently on staff with Nasdaq as Multimedia Project Manager in The San Francisco Bay Area... Producing and managing aspects of webcast production and technical event management, including multimedia production and post-production, camera, lighting, staging, sound, streaming, presentation services and software, projection, rigging, for Nasdaq's Corporate Solutions clients.

Prior to Nasdaq I was with Thomson/Reuters in New York as a Technical Director, directing, recording and transmitting the production of live & prerecorded news coverage of global economic events, presented on Thomson Reuters web based platform, Insider as well as ReutersTV. Contracted with Talkpoint as a Field Streaming Producer & Production Manager handling a variety of audio & video webcasts and production coordination.

Prior to Thomson/Reuters & Talkpoint, I spent over a decade contracted as Director of Photography for three facilities designing, producing and shooting live action and photographic elements for broadcast, cable, webcast & corporate documentaries and specials, news, commercials. I was also Director of Photography, Producer & Editor for Moe Greene, a subsidiary of The Creative Group, developing specials & series content created in the development of FangoriaTV, a startup cable television horror channel & content provider. In addition, I was Director of Photography on various live action projects for Broadcast, DVD and the Internet, which included a Professional Boxing pilot for boxing promoter Main Event Boxing, a PBS documentary on the life of jazz photographer Bill Gottlieb, and small market documentaries for St. Johns University & Showtime